- adjective
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- too ready or willing to give orders, offer advice or help, or use one's authority; bossy and interfering [Barron]
- volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome [Taisha]
- too eager or ready to help, offer advice [Nandigam]
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